So, in the previous article we stopped at the connection and mounting (take online) of the separate recovery mailbox database that was recovered from the backup of the Exchange 2013 mailbox database. You can look through the list of mailboxes in the recovered mailbox database using the PowerShell cmdlet Get-MailboxStatistics:

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Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RDB

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database RDB

Where RDB is the name of the recovery mailbox database

If you are interested in a certain mailbox, you can filter the output of the previous command using the following phrase:

In this example the mailbox with the DisplayName “Alex Dudley” is recovered into the mailbox with the name «adudley» of the existing database. By default, the cmdlet New-MailboxRestoreRequest looks for the concurrent LegacyExchangeDNs in the mailbox database or checks matching of the X500 addresses. This is done to prevent the administrator to accidentally restore data into the wrong location. If you really have to restore the data into a different mailbox, you have to use the AllowLegacyDNMisMatch key.

Tip. After creating a request to recover a mailbox, the request is queued and gets the Queued status). You can check the status of your request with the Get-MailboxRestoreRequest and Get-MailboxRestoreRequestStatistics cmdlets. The syntax of the command is as follows:

The data from the recovered mailbox can be copied to a separate folder in the user mailbox. Supposing if you have to recover the contents of the mailbox into a separate folder «Restored Items», the command will look like this:

The -IncludeFolders key accepts the list of folders. The names of folders should be tagged with # (hash). For example, #SentItems#, #Contacts#, #Tasks#.

You can also recover a certain letter/letters with the keywords contained in the subject or body of the letter. For example, you have to find and recover the the letter with the keywords “windows server 2012 r2” in the subject and “MAK key” in the body of the letter:

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Sam PatrickOctober 11, 2014 - 7:14 pm

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